Just for fun, I thought I’d do a search for Seattle trivia and found some interesting facts. Most everyone knows that Washington produces more apples than any other state, and that Redmond is the home of Microsoft. But, I don’t think most know that we purchase more sunglasses than people in San Diego? I wonder if it’s because we have more people with sensitive blue eyes? Did you also know that pickle-ball was invented in Washington (along with Pictionary and Cranium).
Here’s a few more interesting facts:
- Seattle is the home of the first revolving restaurant.
- Washington state has more glaciers than all 47 contiguous states combined.
- Seattle was the first to play The Beatles on the radio.
- Boeings final assembly plant in Everett is the world’s largest building (pic).
- We have a state insect: Green Darner Dragonfly.
- Seattle is ranked as the most literate city.
- Washington is the birthplace of both Jimi Hendrix and Bing Crosby.
- Seattle has the highest houseboat population in the country.
- The world’s first soft-serve ice cream was served at a Dairy Queen in Olympia.
- Seattle has the highest percentage of residents witha college degree or higher.
- The Puget Sound has the largest ferry fleet in the nation.
- Aberdeen was known as the roughest town west of the Mississippi for it’s excessive gambling, prostitution, violence and drug use.
- It’s disputed Seattle opened the world’s first gas station in 1907.
- The Grand Coulee Dam is the largest dam in the United States.
- The percentage of non-religous people in Washington is the highest of any state, and chruch membership is the lowest.
- Washington is home to four of five of the longest floating bridges in the world.
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